50 sats \ 3 replies \ @beorange OP 24 May \ parent \ on: Self-hosting keeps your private data out of AI models security
There's definitely a maintenance cost/effort. However, it is the only way for individuals and companies to truly own their devices and data. Today it is more important than ever.
There is no free lunch. And the cost of losing access to your data can be much worse.
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One big selling point for me was seeing people lose family pictures on Dropbox because they got corrupted when they were supposed to be safer "on the cloud". It wasn't a hack, a vulnerability, just corrupted files at Dropbox's hard drives.
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The inconveniences of running stuff is outweighted by the benefits of owning yourself.
The costs are very small too.
As a rule: If you can afford extra $5-10 in energy costs every month and can afford a raspberry pi with an ssd, you should have a home server.
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